Overview

Every year, factories and manufacturers release thousands of tons of dangerous pollutants, toxic metals, and poisonous fumes into our air, water and urban centers.

Despite overwhelming public opposition, in December 2006 the Bush administration’s EPA issued a rule exempting more than 3,500 facilities from reporting their pollution under the Toxic Release Inventory program.  The rule also allows polluters to keep the public in the dark about releases of up to 500 pounds of persistent bioaccumulative toxins. The Lautenberg amendment to the 2008 budget bill reversed these rollbacks and restored the public’s access to information about the toxic pollution released into communities.

We need to do more, not less, to monitor toxic pollution. That’s why we stand with the public against powerful special interests to make sure we know what polluters are dumping into our communities.